Yeah, cool, let's let's get going. Did you manage to do the homework at all? Remind me, why is that? Oh, it was doing the the mind map kind of thing. Don't don't worry. Don't worry about it. Oh, sorry, I didn't have that much time. I have like a bunch of lessons. That's okay. That's okay. I will say I think at the end of this lesson there is a sort of slightly more kind of elaborate bit of homework or that that last one was a bit sort of, Yeah, I don't know. It was quite similar to what we're doing in the lesson to be honest. But yes, this one involves kind of, this one involves planning a story. So I'll just I'll just flag that up now. So it might be useful being aware of that. I mean, Yeah, let's see how we get on. Possibly we'll be able to, I don't know, we can take a look at that always in the next lesson and see whether or not we need to sort of make time in the lesson to do that thing or not. Yeah. So let's Yeah let's just see how we get on. Cool. Okay. So this one is on dystopian conventions, which we covered a little bit yesterday, not yesterday on Monday. Okay, so the learning objective is to apply your knowledge of dystopian conventions to your own work. So the success criteria, to identify key descriptive details from a dystopian stimulus, to apply specific success criteria to your description, and to assess the work of others using specific success criteria. What can't say? Okay. All right. So obviously this presentation has been prepared for sort of a whole a whole class. So I will be sort of adjusting the the exodes as we go along. Yeah. Can you tell me some of the conventions of dystpium fiction, convention of dystopian fiction? Like normally like a society like with twisted views where there's like a kind of social hierarchy and some people are not equal to others, like MaaS poverty, like just a bunch of problems. Yeah, like we're Yeah cool. Great description. Great description. Yeah that feels like a good fit. Anything else from these from these images? I guess there's yes, sort of environmental destruction. Did you you mentioned that as well? Environmental description that can be that's a big part of it as well. I think that's gonna to come up quite a lot anyway. Cool. Yeah, let's keep going. All right. Great. So this exercise, I know it says to go and look for the definitions of the word, but I think it's probably more helpful for you to just to attempt to define them yourself. If I give you if I if I give you a little time to write down what you think the definitions are because then the definitions are going to come up. And I don't necessarily I don't think it's that useful. You just sort of like going and looking at a dictionary or googling, it's probably bad. Try and try and work your brain. So Yeah, let's give you if I give you, let's start with five minutes to see how you get on to try try writing down Yeah write down definition and then any kind of, let's say also any kind of real world detail that comes to mind or any kind of any kind of literature that comes to mind that fits with this you know any kind of dynamics you've seen in literature or any plots that come to mind that you think you might use these words for I or should I just write why that? Sorry, what was that? Tricycle switi? Just write one, search the words. If I didn't, Oh, I just Yeah do do whatever do whatever he feels best. Yeah. As in user cinnamon sorry. So is it like switch a different word in or okay. Yeah Yeah I mean, Yeah whatever you like, whatever you think is helpful but Yeah, the I think Yeah just try try writing a little bit about each of the words I think going down through this. Can you wait, can you see those words on the the words to define? Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, cool. Okay. Yeah, I'll give you, if I give you like five minutes at first to just like write a little bit about each of them and then we can talk about them afterwards. Does that sound right? Yeah, cool. Yeah. So all right, great. I don't know some of these words. Can I, can I, can I actually leave them if I don't know? Yeah, of course, of course. Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, no problem. I think Yeah just let me know once you've worked through them and Yeah and then we'll try them. I've worked to most of them but it just some I don't understand the meaning Yeah No But let's Yeah let's move on to the definitions then Yeah sorry I just I think googling them is probably like it just doesn't feel like a productive thing. I think it's better to drone try racking your brain but on this next slide is some definitions. Okay. Let see if I can make that bit bigger. Wait, see if I get okay, some of them would cut off at the bottom, but I can I can read those out for you. Yeah. So totalitarianism political. Wait, did you did you write down a definition for that? So Yeah, so it's here. We're power resolely on one person. That's what I thought. I thought that was like. We're like everything is determined by one person. Yes. I mean that is that definitely a part of it. Wait, you know what? I'm gonna go back. Sorry. It's a little bit choppy. Yeah which of the words which of the words did you know down? Did you feel like you had a definition for so I to tell totalitanism Yeah or authoritarian bureaucracy. I thought bureaucracy was like a firm or a company. That's how I saw. Is it not? Or Yeah a bureaucracy can be it can be affirm, but sort of bureaucratic systems are often part of you know a part I guess bureaucratic systems are a part of any kind of government, any any you know any, any, any country. But quite often, I think it's coming up here because endystopian fiction, you quite often get really difficult bureaucratic systems where you you know where it's really hard to get anything done or where it's really hard to get an answer from people in power, let's say. So I think Yeah it's quite often dystopian fiction. You'll get a look inside the the bureaucracies of the state, for instance. But Yeah bureaucracy is something that comes up in in companies. They I wouldn't say that they they're not like a they're not a synonym for a firm or a company, but it's a part of it. What did you have for authoritarian? I put like where like one person's decision is absolute. Yeah great. Like we're like a group of people. Yeah, cool. Yeah that's that's absolutely a part of it. Any any of the others that you noted? And another one is nihilism, believing that there's no meaning, life like there's no purpose. And utilitarian, a way of thinking that the best decision is the one that causes the greatest happiness to the greatest number of people. Okay. Yeah, great. Great work. Let's see what's on the slides. Yeah. Totalitarianism, a political system where the government has complete control over all aspects of life, including what people think, say and do. Individual freedom isn't almost entirely taken away. So it's not just about one person, but one person can be you know, the person determining that, right? You know, I think you can have an authoritarian leader who like brick brother or something from 19 four? Yes, absolutely. Yeah. Like big brother thers, so you probably say big brother is an authoritarian leader in a totalitarian state. So it's like totalitarians, the kind of governing ideology. And then you have an authoritarian figure within that. So authoritarian, a way of ruling where one leader or a small group has strong power, expecting people to obey with that question of often limiting personal freedoms. Bureausee, a system of government organithat's run by many officials following strict rules and procedures. It can make things slow, complicated and impersonal. Yeah. So a bureaucracy, you end up with our great sleep manager ger, Yeah. So you see, you can have a bureaucracy in really any of these. You can have a totalitarian bureaucracy where you've got like a small set of people running things at the top, but then the state has loads and loads of officials that are kind of slowing things down. But you're right in it. Yeah, it can be an organization. Yeah people often do you know Kafka, the the writer, Kafka. So people often, if a bureaucracy is particularly difficult to navigate, quite often people will call it Kafka esque because in some of his short stories, he he writes about like really particularly difficult bureaucracies, analylike systems of trials and stuff. So you might you might hear that at some point. Kafkaesque. So they've taken his name and then they've added escat the end to make it you know fit with his writings. But Yeah, he was a German German language writer, but he was born in Prague. Yeah heprobably to heprobably have influenced some of the stories that we're talking about, especially his works, the trial and the castle. He also wrote a book called metamorphosis, which is about a man turning into a bug into a bug. Yeah he turns into a beetle. Yeah metamorphosis. And then we got draconium, which which is hard to fit on the screen and just going to read it out. Extremely harsh or severe laws, rules or punishments, for example, punishing someone very harshly for a small mistake. So I guess you know these dystopian societies will have draconian punishments to keep people in line. Moving on to the next okay. Okay, oligarchy again, quite sort of similar, you know overlaps with authoritarian, but oligarchy, a system where a small group of people, often wealthy or powerful, control a country. Or I will say quite often the word oligarchy is associated with wealth, is associated with a wealthy set of people that running a country and having more power than you would hope. So quite, you might have oligarchs who are very powerful people and then you might have them interacting with an authoritarian leader. They might be sort of the people around an authoritarian leader to simulate to hydro feeling thoughts for intentions, pretending to me different from what you really are. Like it's like say let tting like someone who's going for a president or Prime Minister. They talk about trying to perform something and then and they do they do the exact opposite. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah great point. Great point. Applying it to to a politician that will definitely, definitely come up in these stories. I think also, it's probably going to happen. It happens quite a lot. The main characters of these stories will probably dissimulate quite a lot because of the societies that they're in, especially if they are, let's say, someone who is a rebel within the society theyprobably be caught in hiding their feelings. And you might find that what they're thinking versus what they're saying is possibly a useful way of looking at some of these narratives. Like if they're in the first person, what they are saying in the first person narrative might be different to them the way that they are presenting themselves to the world in the story. So dissimulation and point of how that relates to the point of view of these lead characters in these dissoian stories might be quite quite useful to bear in mind. Nohiliism Yeah believe ef that life is meaningless and that traditional values, rules, or morals have no real importance. So Yeah, I think you you captured that with your a definition before and then utilitarian, the idea that the best action is the one that benefits the most people, the greatest good for the greatest number. Yeah interesting to think about how that applies to these stories that we are covering. Yeah, I'm not quite sure we've have we seen it come up yet? I don't know. Well, Yeah, I've studied. Yeah Yeah, great. Yeah. You were saying yesterday I was thinking, Yeah did you mention it with regards to minority report? I think possibly on Monday, anyone when we were talking about minority report? I guess you could apply this to minority report. You could say possibly they think of that system where they're predicting future crimes as a Taras, a utilitarian system, because they think that, you know, sacrifice these people and then you keep those other people free from violence. So Yeah, I think we could talk about, are you saving people? Well, you technically are because it's a possibility. We don't know that if you will actually do it. So Yeah, you might Yeah know you're right. You're right. You're absolutely right. That's the problem. If it's not happened, how can you say that it's happened? But I guess it's but it happens, then it's too late and exactly. Yeah so they're in this kind of it is a fascinating moral bite. And it makes you think about the it makes you think about stuff like the definition of a crime. Like what's the can you say it's a crime if it's not happened yet? Probably not. But Yeah, it makes you go back and forth on these things, I think sets up a really interesting debate. Okay, summariising. Yeah. Let's go back to utopian and dystopia. One sentence, if you had to summarizing one sentence, utopia. Utopia is a future where technology has advanced, people have rights, their freedom, they're living their best lives and happiness, and that's about it. Like it's a future where everything is, everyone's happy, everything's peaceful, no fighting, nothing. It is a peaceful society. Yeah. Yeah. Cool. Great. And how about dystopia? Dystopia is one where. It's one where like you know sometimes the environment's bad, a twisted society, one with like one with limited rights, limited freedom, and where one person or group controls everything. Great. Yeah. I think freedom really is key when we're when we're thinking about both of these. Freedom I think freedom is the kind of dividing dividing point between them. I think in a utopia, everyone would sort of technically be free. Yeah but obviously can can everyone really, truly ever be free? Which is often why what looks like utopia will then have the dystopia behind it. So got a couple of possible definitions here. So these definitions, I feel like your definitions, they were describing elements that I would expect to see in a dystopia. But I think Yeah keep thinking, how do I express what's the kind of core of these things? And so utopia, you might say, imagine perfect society where everything's fair, peaceful and idea, and you were talking about, you know, no fighting and stuff. So I feel like you were you, you know, you were you were talking around that. But dystopia, dystopia is an imagined society that looks organized or controlled, but is actually dangerous, unfair and unpleasant living. I mean, I would also, I probably also say, quite often it will be organized and controlled, but itstill be dangerous to live in, or often, you know the nature of the control makes it dangerous. Yeah. And key, it's often unpleasant because at the bottom of it, there's no freedom. That is the that's the dividing line quite often. Yeah, no. Yeah. Oh, okay, what's the next one? Sopient inventions. Okay. So we've got a little got a little little grid here of conventions. Yeah, I guess just from reading this, like which would you which words would you pick out as applying to dystpian stories? Which one I'll pick out? Violence. A government with total control. And monitoring and surveillance. That's why I would no you want a government with total control, monitoring and surveillance Yeah and an illusion of of of a utopian world because normally is hidden. It's not really hidden. But like the people in it, they don't realize Yeah information has been Yeah or that I think keep open, keep your mind open when it comes to you can get arranged these different stories. So like Hunger Games, it is clear to people, or at least possibly it's clear to the people that we're seeing from the start, but then it's maybe not clear to the people in the capital. You know the people are kind of arranging the games. But then if you think of, do you know the handmaids tell the story? The handmaids tell no, I'm not sure. Well, that's that's another great dystopian story that I'm sure we'll come you'll come across at some point for sure. It's one of the really big ones by Margaret atwards, who because a Canadian writer, she's writing about a version of America called Gilliad where women have to, it's a firstly, it's a theocracy, so it's kind of governed by religious figures, but then also it's you have to believe in God. That's how a thing sorry, she's like, you have to believe in God that happens. Yeah, they do. They do. But the kind of the key to that dystopian vision is that women aren't free and like the men men are in control of women. And it's a future where most people aren't, most women aren't fertile anymore. So men basically, Yeah men have things, have men have women called handmaids who give birth to their children, but they don't have any freedom. So again, in that in that in a way, sorry. So like prostitutes in away, Yeah they treat them like more like slaves, like slaves Yeah like slathey treat them. They have they have slaves. So basically as many women have been turned in slaves and that's certain but that is that's one of the Yeah, that's a really big a really big one when it comes to dystopian fiction. So I think that would probably keep coming up. I think that was written in the 19 eighties. It's a great, great book. But again, in that one, the perspective is from one of the handmaids and she's aware that it's a faulty society. But Yeah but how do you even realize as a faulty society if everything you've bought up with like says it's it's a perfect society? Yeah how do you even rule it? Well, I think quite often quite often these stories, they they teach they teach the main characters of these things. They show them these things through action, through what happens in the story, you know, a good story. The character, the main character will learn. So quite often theylearn that it's photo to, you know, I think like Winston in Nineteen Eighty Four, he learns across the story exactly how that society works. So goes from innocence to experience. And he's kind of taught it by, is it Julia's, the name of the woman? Julia can't, I can't immediately remember. But so quite often these, quite often these writers will show us how someone figures that out, theyshow us how someone learns that, Yeah, I would go to on these discipline conventions. I would also, I'd probably go for unfair treatment as well, depending on the kind of story, lack of trust you might have because you might apply that somesomething like Hunger Games, straightenness control. Poverty is quite often a part of it. Sometimes in these stories, you have a government that's kind of justifying poverty. It's sort of like you know some people must be in poverty whilst others are really misbehaved or something they've misbehaved or or all that. That government feels like it's necessary to have some poor people in order to have rich because then the poor people can be doing stuff that keep the the rich people rich. Cool. Okay, great full out. We've done loads under sopium conventions. Gonna gonna watch a video from Hunger Games and we're gonna talk about, we're gonna sort of pull some dysoeping conventions from this. So I have found this YouTube video. I'm just gonna go, I'm just gonna go off this app a second and see, I hope it doesn't. I'll leap back into the lesson if I leave it, but I'm assuming it's not that's not gonna happen. Just grabbing this link copbe link, okay. Our paste. I'm just pasting into the chat the link for the YouTube video. Have you got that? Yp, great. So if you just have, have have watched that and think think about what dystopian conventions you would describe from this scene. Oh, look at you. Back in that table book made something out for you too. Okay. Wish I like you. Oh, no, I wish I would take you. See what I think. I'm walking today that can protect you as soon as you have it. I'm. Enough. I sit down there with the little kids. I'll find you a carcake. I finished it. It's, well, it shows. It's, it shows like no matter how society has changed, you, you would, you would still fear like kind of the risk of death. Yeah Yeah great point. Great point. Yeah fear fear is a huge part of it, right? Yeah youstill feel a risk of death even that's something that unites all of these different societies in these these things. And I guess we're we're also being shown sort different ways that governments create fear. What other Yeah what else kind of stuck out you? What other kind of dystopian conventions did you. Kind of it's like you're forced kind of and the moment she starts crying like her sister like tells her to stop, I mean, like in a hungame, when I saw it, I saw Shiman like, you know if you didn't, you like get like killed or something because it's supposed to be a celebration in the for the people in the capital. Yeah, Yeah, good point. Yeah, I thought I sort of, I felt like if we're looking at the kind of visuals and the clothing, like the fact that they're all wearing this bland clothing, it's like they're not allowed sort of Colin, their lives, you know and the fact that they they walk across mud and then I guess I find it interesting that they're forced to give their blood. So it's like they don't have control over their, that's another way that they don't have control over their bodies. They have to sort of give up give up some of their blood. Yeah, Yeah. So I thought all those things were interesting things that you could kind of you could put out and use. Great, let's look at. Yeah, okay. So we're going to read a little bit from the hungames and then we're going to have a think about what dystopian features we identiin the text. So I'm going to put this up to read and if you have a read and then let me know once you've once you've had a read a bit. It shows like it shows how like kind of our brute autors, like the they're literally like kind of entirely at the mercy of the capital. Like everything they do is basically useless because like they're it shows how like how effective psychologically it is because it shows how people are now hopeless because like the children are being taken away. So they're more in mourning and like hoping that their children is not next rather than rather than worrying about a rebellion. Yeah, great point. Yeah, great point. Yeah cool. Keep thinking keep thinking about how that then what dystopian conventions are being used, what things that are across dystopian fiction that you think that the writer is using to kind of get those points across. Think about like looking at this extract, think about what you would put out, what you could use, what's unusual, what kind of leaps out at you because we're gonna to going to do I'm going to ask you some questions and I'll leave the text up here so that you can take a look as a go. So this part is about retrieval and understanding. So the first question is, according to the mayor, how did the country of Pan Am come into existence? I think a party ony like some disaster happened in America. And and that's how panam came into existence. It's like what rose from. From beneath like were rose from the ashes Yeah of America became panam. Yeah great. So there's a shift in conditions people will kind of pushed to extremists. And this is a new vision of society that's come out of being people being pushed to pushed to extreme. Question two, what happened during the dark days? The dark days, were they uprised? Yeah. The people, the districts uprized against the capital and then they were brutally defeated. Yeah great. What's the punishment given to the districts for their uprising, the Hunger Games and like having resources cut off? Yeah, and then the thirteenth district was destroyed. And what why is it a punishment? Why is the hunger gaa punishment? To remind people of how the children could just be taken away with a snap of a finger and how powerless they were. They could only watch. Yeah, Yeah, great. Okay. What reward does the winning tribute in their district receive? They receive food and rations. Along with. It will be shower prices, zes consisting of food basically. And then they grain, oil and sugar. Wait, isn't that like simple stuff? There it is. So the district gets extra simple stuff. But I guess they're in they're in such that again, suggests that they're in such a bad place that even just getting these basic resources is helpful. So it's sort of another way that the writer conveys how how sort of difficult their life is. But also remember that the winner, the winning tribute gets to have a nice time of life fees and sort of I guess, join the capital in a sense. You know they get they get to sort of live live like the people in the capital. Okay, onto some more questions. So this these ones are more about analyzing and sort of what you can infer from the from the text. Why do you think that the capital makes the Hunger Games a public festivity rather than just private punishment? Five. To show the people, like to kind of discourage people on like rebelling. Why does that? Why would that discourage them? Well if you think about it like how how how powerless would you feel if you're like you know if your children would could just be taken from you with a snap of with like a literally like a order Yeah Yeah you would for Yeah you feel really powerless. What is there? Another I guess we might say we might say that it's that's humiliating as well. It's sort of it humiliates puin in another place. We might also say that because it's a festivity, it also it's distracting. It's like a point of distraction for people. And it also, it offers people entertainment as well. You know it's like it's like executions in sort of in medieval types, you know where it would be, you know executions would happen in in in a public place and people would come and watch it. So you're also kind of giving people entertainment at the same time. What does the extract suggest about life in the districts compared to life in the capital? Rather, the capital is full of food. You can have luxury and party every day, but live in the districts is harsh. Yeah, great, great grandhow. Do the Hunger Games show the capitals control over the people? Feel like you sort of already covered this. But Yeah, you've you've you've covered this. I mean, you know it shows their control because they can just take away their children whenever they're like. Next question, what feelings might people in the districts experience during the reaping in the games? Hope but like Oh, hope and then it's brutally taken away from them. Yeah, great point. That kind feeling. Yeah, that like it's great. It's a great point that they would feel hope because they would feel hope, but then itbe taken away and then just kicking away once they died. Yeah. But it's it's also the games. I think you're what you've pointed out there is that the games are also a way of building hope, of giving people hope, even if just for a bit, even if it's false hope taken away from them. No. But then wouldn't be would you rather have hope and then and then be take and then have that hope ripped away or yourather have no hope to begin with? Because isn't that like worse? Wouldn't that make you fall into deeper depression? Yeah. You think about it because if you have hope and then it just sigto away, wouldn't that make you feel worse? Yeah, I think that Yeah, it's a great point. I mean, I think I think I can probably think of moments where I'd I'd personally rather have had hope and then moments where I'd rather have not. But I think you've identified a really, I think that's in these stories. You know, I think that question of, is it is it better, you know in Nineteen Eighty Four, is it is it better to think two plus two equals five? Or is it better to have hope that the rebellion might win? You know is it better to kind of give yourself over? And I guess hope, having hope implies freedom, implies if you have freedom to make choices and and to have dreams and to have control over your lives, then you've got you know that's part of hope. That's a great point. So I think you should Yeah look out for that in these stories and look how they look for how they discuss that and consider that. Okay. So let's link some of these things to dystoping conventions. Can you identify two dystoping conventions showing the extract and explain how they're presented? So. We too two of the dystopian conventions that we've been discussing. Okay, so for instance, so like fear, for instance, like fear is a convention of dystopion. So you might say it shows fear and then you might say, you know how it shows the fear. But Yeah, two other things where when we're were discussing like what defines a dystopia, that kind of thing. Oh, like the games and stuff, because this is the competitors must fight to the death. The last tribustanding wins. Taking kids from the from our districts, forcing them to kill one another. Well, Yeah, that just tells you about it. Yeah, we watch. Yeah, great. So if I was going to put out a few, I would say, what about oppressive government? So this shows oppressive government because as you just said, you know, it forces them to do these games. So the capital uses laws and games to control people. They might also say suffering of ordinary citizens. We've sort of covered that a bit with fear and stuff, haven't we? But the ordinary citizens, they suffer, they face starvation and humiliation. Yeah, cool. How do you think I was just going to say? Also, something else to consider is. Yeah I think to sum up a little bit, the Hunger Games, one thing it shows is it shows how people in power use fear, violence and control to keep people obedient and weak. And it also shows things like you know how people in power use entertainment to keep people weak. So it's quite a complex depiction of power in its operations. Do you think Pan Am could also be seen as a utopia for some people? Well, well, there's not much or there is crime. A utopia for people. Yeah, I don't really see it. It's called utopia. You say, I think it's possible that the people in the capital, they think that it's a utopia because they because for them, they're wealthy, they're safe, and they fall into this ideology. People in the capital think it's like kind of Yeah who get capital, probably things like, Yeah, cool. So I think it's useful to think that possibly this story shows both a utopia and a dystopia, but they're also kind of divided there. Yeah. No, you can also say that there's one on top of the other. You know it's like the the capital is able to be wealthy and powerful because it does the hungry games, right? They've sort of created this utopia by creating this dystopia beneath cool. So let's move on to how we would. How we would sort of analyze this, right? So Yeah, we've got this great d. So we were so have a go at this basically that's what I'd say. On. So you've got this grid show. It shows you to taking a quotation from the text, then we're explaining it. So the way that we're explaining it is we're explaining how it relates to a dystopian convention. Then we're exploring it, which means that we are analyzing the language and the technique of the writer, and then we link it to another part of the text. So we sort of look a little broader. And another way of saying that is we're sort of looking at how it's a part of the, what part of the text it is. So this example here got quote from the text, country that rose out the ashes was a place once called North America. Shows the story set in a new world with a new regime. Then analyzing the language, the phrase rose ws up out of the ashes indicates the reading of the word as we know it's been destroyed. We might also, we might also think of the Phoenix in that, you know, that image implies a Phoenix rising from the ashes. Then linto another part of the text, this links to the quotation listing the disasters, drought, storms, fires, etc, which confirms that the setting has experienced pain and violence in the past. So do you want to briefly have a go at sort of using those two other quotes when it comes to the link? If you write from me when it comes to the link, you Oh, sorry, what are you going to say? So I write all of it. We'll just the link, all of it. You know what? Why don't you I think why don't we just do this verbally? I think doing it verbally might be more helpful. Yeah. So let's so I'm just going to shut my windows out. Someone's someone's cutting grass outside. Okay. So we've got a quote from the text. The result was panic, a Shan capital wringed by 13 districts, which brought peace and prosperity to exiwhat kind of convention. What kind of convention that we've been discussing might we put out of that or conventions? There's multiple. And that I think very like it's it's like branding the the rebellions as like traitors is not actually talking about what, how, why. They rebelit's just talking about like, Oh, pam was peaceful and then they rebelmaking that like painting them as a villains and their and his punishment as like kind of retrolike kind of deserved, like when it was not. Yeah, that's great analysis. But I think you're think you're racing ahead. You're getting kind of into you've gone for like a really, you've gone for a complex take. What's the like put like really simply, what convention of a dystof dystopian fiction could you just you know what kind of trait, what trope from dystopian fiction can you say as in this quote here or which which. Which truth? Well, it would even mean my trope, other trowas like a planter type, so kind of an antagonist protagonist type of Yeah. I would say a trope is something that comes up repeatedly in a certain kind of kind of literature or kind of fill you know yousay a trope of the thriller genre is psychological terror, right? Or yousay a trope of dystopian fiction is that is there's a rebellion in there somewhere. But when I'm talking about like what dystopian convention is being used so for this quote about panammic shining capital, so you might say that there's a utopia, right? Shining capital ringed by bropeace prosperity. So this quote implies that they've built a utopia. So the writer is is using is using this quote to imply to invoke a utopia to bring in the sense that there's a utopia or you Yeah you might point to and then you might point to peace and prosperity as being things that come up in utopias. And then if you were to write another sentence, you might say, often, of course, utopias come up in dystopian fiction and they are one part of a you know they sort of cover over a dystopian society. So what is there anything about the language or something else about the technique of the writer that you would that you could analyze from that quote? Result was am? Shining. This is a shining capital. It makes it sound like a like a paradise. Yeah, great. What is what is it about? What does shining imply? What does shining suggest? It was like very peaceful. Everything was good. Like it was like the perfect paradise. Yeah, great. But also, I think the word like the weed like shining implies, I don't know, to me implies stuff like it's clean and wealthy. You know, are you kind of imagine the sort of glinting towers of of the. Yeah. You see what I've sort of taken that taken that word and then pushed it that used that word to sort of back up back up what I'm saying about utopia. And then for the sake of for the sake of this one, I think we'll move on from this bit after wards. But so if we were to link it to another part of the text, you could link it to the part below where it says the uprising of the districts against the capital, twelve were defeated, the 13 th obliterated. So what we've been saying in terms of how quite often it's a utopia to some, but a dystopia to others, all, let's say, or you can also say that dystopian fictions also depict utopians the same type. You could say this other part of the text shows that's the dystopian side to the utopia that is implied by the quote before. So men Yeah so this is a technique that this is sorry. So so this is Yeah, this is just this is just sort of another way of describing the technique above. So you identify a quote bthe question. So if the question is how does the writers suggest that the hunger game is is set in a dystopio in a way that we do that we say, what are the conventions of dystopian fiction, right? We have these in our head, and then we look for them within the text, right? So we find a quote that answers that question. We then explain how the quote answers that question, which in this case means that we are saying the writer shows a utopia. And then we might say a utopia often comes up into dystpium fiction. Explore another meaning. So then the next step is to explore another meaning of the quotation, which in this case we might say, when we say another meaning, we might, it might be the literary technique. So it might be looking at the language. We might also, it could be that you're looking at the kind of depiction of character. It could be, it could equally be if you had some context, if you knew some context about the book all the time that the book was written, this might be a moment to bring in context, or this might be a moment to, you could even compare it to another another piece of, you know, another book, another piece to ving fiction. And then you'll, and at the end of it, you're linking either one of your ideas, the explaining the explorer with another quotation or idea in the text. So that's how you sort of keep your keep your points moving. And then that the example below sort of shows you more broadly how you would do that. Cool. Okay, great. So this is just, this is showing us how we you know, how we build our knowledge of dystopia into how we build it into an essay, how we build it into answers, right? Yep. Yeah so do you Yeah. I don't know if it's useful to get a photo of this page because having that criteria might be helpful. Okay, picture this. Great. I think that's helpful because this is a way that we can structure each of our each of our paragraphs when we're writing about something. I think it's useful to have that. We are gonna leap over that and then we're gonna get onto the this is the homework. But to be honest, what I'll say here is it sounds like you've got sounds like you've got a lot of other work at the moment. What I would say here is just I would say just go away and just think about this stuff, right? Okay, Oh wait, I'm just gonna let me just play this there we go. If you take a photo again because it's got a lot more detail on there. Should I do photo tage of this as what? Yeah because Yeah, there's a lot more detail. Can you see the stuff about setting and characters and stuff? Yeah, great. Cool. Yeah. So this this page is just a series of things to think about because we're working towards you writing a little dystopian short story, right? So it's like a mix of English analysis and bit of creative writing. So if you have space, if you have time to to brainstorm, to plan, to research, that is great. But I would just say, have a thing. What kind of dystopian story might you like to tell? What are you interested in? And Yeah get thinking about that for for Friday and take a look at the here's a little this page is basically a guide, this guide of all the things you might think about. So that's time, place, what features of the world there are from the kind of list of dystopian things we've got, like poverty, surveillance, stuff like that. So you might you might be thinking about a story that's all about surveillance. Like do we need more surveillance in order to you know, help society? But does that give up our freedom? You know, that's something we've discussed quite lot. Characters. Who's your main characters? Who's the antagonist? Antagonist is the thing that's going against the main character. Do they have does the main character have friends? And then we've got a little guide to how to think about the beginning, middle and end down here. And then some extra details at the bottom, such as titles, the mood or atmosphere, the tone, and then any symbols on my tissue might use any kind of images you might use in there. Cool. Great. Is that is that clear? Just just have a think about least get thinking. Great. Cool. Well, thanks again for today. Another great another great session. And Yeah any questions? Oh no, not really. Thank you. Cool. Thank you. Yeah thanks for being so engaged again. And Yeah see you on Friday. Looking forward to it. See see ya. Bye.